Folk Myth : Can shoe size predict penile length?
February 10th, 2011
A folk myth really popular says: (imagine the voice of an old old old old man telling an old old old old legend) “To know the size of the penis of a guy, see his Feet/Nose/Hand/Thumb/Toe/Hair/Dog/Cat/Goat/Number-of-porn-movie-in-his-computer*”.
Some scientific have decided to verify this folk myth. There are a kind of MythBusters** of sex. These 3 scientific studies will tell you the truth about this folk myth!
1- A Korean study has measured the stretched penile length, its circumference, the length of: each finger, each toe, nose, hear and month; the weight, the size of the body and even the baldness of 655 Koreans above 17 years old and during 4 months.
The averages are:
Age: 46.6 +/- 18.4 years old
Stretched penile length: 10.0 +/- 2.0 cm
Circumference of stretched penile: 8.5 +/- 1.0. cm
The results are:
- Weak correlation between the size and the circumference of the penis (stretched penile).
- The circumference of the penis is weakly correlated (in decreasing order) with the size of the penis, the size of the body and the weight of the person, also with the length of the 3rd and 1st toe.
Conlusion: Even the weak correlation that they have found, it is not possible to determine the size of the penis from these different parts of the body.
2- A Canadian study has measured the stretched penile length, the length of the body and the size of the feet of 63 mans.
The averages are:
Age: 39.6 years old (between 27 and 71 years old).
Body height: 174.7 cm (between 157 and 194 cm)
Stretched penile length: 9.4 cm (between 6 and 13.5 cm)
Size of feet: 26.5 cm (between 24.4 and 29.4 cm). Caution!! They have converted the shoe size to foot length.
The results are:
-Size of the feet and body height are moderately correlated.
- There is a weak statistical significant between size of the penis and body height and also between size of the penis and foot size.
Conclusion: There have found the same results than Loeb et al. in 1899. But it is still not enough to be able to determine the size of the penis from the body height and foot size.
3- London’s study has also measured the size of the penis and foot size from 104 mans but contrary to the study above, they didn’t find any correlation.
The averages are:
Age: 54 years old (between 17 and 84 years old).
Stretched penile length: 13 cm (Between 6 and 18 cm)
Shoe size (UK size): 9 (between 5.5 and 13). Caution! They use the shoe size, not the real size of the feet.
The results are:
No correlation is found between penis size and shoe size.
Conclusion: No correlation = myth busted
By the way, you are probably asking what is the “Stretched penile length”? As it is named, it’s when you stretch your dick (don’t ask me more detail, I don’t have a cock). But according this and this study, the size of a penis in erection can be determined from the length of a stretched penile. I am sure guy, who are reading that, you are trying to do something with you dick… ah? At least you have looked at it. Don’t lie! 
The conclusion of theses 3 studies is clear, even a weak correlation between a penis size and the size of some other part of the body, it is not possible to determine or guess the penile length of the guy that you want to pick-up on a bar. Sorry women… we can’t make a “pick-up selection” by checking the hand of guy and honnestly it is not the size of the penis which meter but how to use it. If you are stubborn and really want only man with horse-dick-like on your bed, you should pick up only tall guy, the correlation between body height and penile length is weak but… correlation it has… Remember correlation does not equal causation! So don’t come crying after, if the guy has a micropenis even with his 2.20m or if the boyfriend of your bestfriend, whose you have looked after and finally decided to give up because of his 1.65 m, has a big penis!
Source:
Park JS, Woo JC, Park NC. Body Predictive Index of Penile Size Korean J Androl 17(1):29-32 Apr 1999
Siminoski, K., & Bain, J. (1993). The Relationships Among Height, Penile Length, and Foot Size Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 6 (3), 231-235 DOI: 10.1177/107906329300600305
Shah J, & Christopher N (2002). Can shoe size predict penile length? BJU international, 90 (6), 586-7 PMID: 12230622
Wessells H, Lue TF, & McAninch JW (1996). Penile length in the flaccid and erect states: guidelines for penile augmentation. The Journal of urology, 156 (3), 995-7 PMID: 8709382
Chen J, Gefen A, Greenstein A, Matzkin H, & Elad D (2000). Predicting penile size during erection. International journal of impotence research, 12 (6), 328-33 PMID: 11416836
* Delete whichever is inapplicable.
** It refers to the TV series MythBusters on Discovery Channel.
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